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Table of Contents
1. Cross-Application/Central Organizational Units.....................................................................8
1.1. Company............................................................................................................................8
1.2. Credit Control Area.............................................................................................................9
1.3. Company Code...................................................................................................................9
2. Financial Accounting..............................................................................................................13
2.1. Chart of Accounts...............................................................................................................13
3. Asset Accounting...................................................................................................................14
3.1. Depreciation area................................................................................................................14
3.2. Chart of depreciation...........................................................................................................15
3.3. Asset class..........................................................................................................................15
B. Master Data..................................................................................................................................16
1. General Master Records........................................................................................................16
1.1. Customer Master Record....................................................................................................16
1.2. Vendor Master Record........................................................................................................16
1.3. Bank/Bank Directory TR/FI.................................................................................................17
1.4. Taxes..................................................................................................................................17
2. Financial Accounting..............................................................................................................17
2.1. G/L Account........................................................................................................................17
2.2. Ledger.................................................................................................................................18
3. Asset Accounting ..................................................................................................................19
C. Business Processes.....................................................................................................................20
1. Financial Accounting..............................................................................................................20
1.1. Basic Settings.....................................................................................................................20
1.1.1. Fiscal Year and Posting Periods ....................................................................................20
1.1.2. Document........................................................................................................................21
1.1.3. Posting Help....................................................................................................................22
1.1.4. Tax on Sales/Purchases in SAP System.........................................................................22
1.1.5. Withholding Tax...............................................................................................................23
1.2. General Ledger Accounting................................................................................................23
1.2.1. Postings in G/L................................................................................................................23
1.2.1.1. Park G/L Account Document........................................................................................23
1.2.1.2. G/L Account Posting.....................................................................................................23
1.2.1.3. Recurring Entry.............................................................................................................24
1.2.1.4. Document Reversal......................................................................................................24
1.2.2. General Ledger Account Analysis....................................................................................24
1.2.2.1. General Ledger Line item Analysis...............................................................................24
1.2.3. Account Clearing [GL]......................................................................................................24
1.2.3.1. Automatic Clearing........................................................................................................24
1.2.4. Closing Operations..........................................................................................................25
1.2.4.1. Regroup Receivables/Payables....................................................................................25
1.2.4.2. GR/IR Clearing Account Maintenance..........................................................................25
1.2.4.3. Financial Statement Creation........................................................................................26
1.2.4.4. Periodic Reports...........................................................................................................26
1.2.4.5. Carry Forward G/L Balances........................................................................................27
1.2.5. Integration........................................................................................................................27
1.3. Accounts Payable...............................................................................................................27
1.3.1. Vendor Down Payments..................................................................................................27
1.3.2. Invoices and Credit Memos.............................................................................................28
1.3.2.1. Vendor Document Parking............................................................................................28
1.3.2.2. Invoice Receipt.............................................................................................................28
1.3.2.3. Vendor Credit Memo.....................................................................................................29
1.3.2.4. Document Reversal......................................................................................................29
1.3.2.5. Recurring Entry.............................................................................................................30
1.3.3. Vendor Account Analysis.................................................................................................30
1.3.3.1. Vendor Line Item Analysis............................................................................................30
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1.3.3.2. Balance Analysis...........................................................................................................30
1.3.3.3. Vendor Account Evaluations.........................................................................................30
1.3.4. Vendor Payments............................................................................................................30
1.3.4.1. Vendor Payment Request.............................................................................................32
1.3.4.2. Release for Payment....................................................................................................32
1.3.4.3. Manual Outgoing Payments..........................................................................................32
1.3.4.4. Automatic Outgoing Payments.....................................................................................32
1.3.4.5. Vendor Payment Medium Creation...............................................................................33
1.3.5. Account Clearing [AP]......................................................................................................34
1.3.5.1. Automatic Clearing........................................................................................................34
1.3.6. Interest Calculation [A/P].................................................................................................34
1.3.6.1. Vendor Account Balance Interest Calculation...............................................................34
1.3.6.2. 00Calculation of Interest on Arrears – Vendors............................................................35
1.3.7. Correspondence with Vendors.........................................................................................35
1.3.7.1. Correspondence with Vendors......................................................................................35
1.4. Accounts Receivable..........................................................................................................36
1.4.1. Customer Down Payments..............................................................................................36
1.4.1.1. Customer Down Payment.............................................................................................36
1.4.2. Invoices and Credit Memos.............................................................................................37
1.4.2.1. Customer Document Parking........................................................................................37
1.4.2.2. Outgoing Invoice...........................................................................................................37
1.4.2.3. Customer Credit Memo.................................................................................................37
1.4.2.4. Document Reversal......................................................................................................38
1.4.2.5. Recurring Entry.............................................................................................................38
1.4.3. Account Analysis [A/R].....................................................................................................38
1.4.3.1. Customer Line Item Analysis........................................................................................38
1.4.3.2. Balance Analysis...........................................................................................................38
1.4.3.3. 0Credit Management Analysis......................................................................................38
1.4.3.4. Customer Evaluations...................................................................................................39
1.4.4. 0Customer Payments......................................................................................................39
1.4.4.1. Payment Advice Note Processing.................................................................................39
1.4.4.2. 0Release for Payment..................................................................................................40
1.4.4.3. Manual Incoming Payments..........................................................................................40
1.4.4.4. Automatic Incoming Payments.....................................................................................40
1.4.4.5. Customer Payment Medium Creation...........................................................................41
1.4.4.6. Manual Payment by Bill of Exchange............................................................................41
1.4.4.7. Bill of Exchange Usage.................................................................................................42
1.4.5. Account Clearing [AR]......................................................................................................42
1.4.5.1. Automatic Clearing........................................................................................................42
1.4.6. Dunning Notice................................................................................................................42
1.4.6.1. Automatic Dunning........................................................................................................42
1.4.7. Interest Calculation [A/R] ................................................................................................43
1.4.7.1. Customer Account Balance Interest Calculation...........................................................43
1.4.7.2. Calculation of Interest on Arrears - Customers.............................................................43
1.4.8. Correspondence with Customers.....................................................................................44
1.4.8.1. Correspondence with Customers..................................................................................44
1.5. Bank Accounting.................................................................................................................44
1.5.1. 0Incomings......................................................................................................................44
1.5.1.1. Cash Journal.................................................................................................................44
1.5.1.2. Manual Account Statement...........................................................................................45
1.5.1.3. Check Deposit Transaction...........................................................................................45
1.5.1.4. Bill of Exchange Presentation (Debit)...........................................................................46
1.5.1.5. Cash Journal.................................................................................................................46
1.5.2. Check Management.........................................................................................................47
1.5.2.1. Manage Check Balance................................................................................................47
1.5.3. Account Balance Interest Calculation..............................................................................47
1.5.3.1. Account Balance Interest Calculation...........................................................................47
1.6. Special Purpose Ledger .....................................................................................................47
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2. Asset Accounting...................................................................................................................48
2.1. Handling Fixed Assets........................................................................................................48
2.1.1. Asset Maintenance..........................................................................................................48
2.1.1.1. Creation of Master Record for Tangible Assets............................................................48
2.1.1.2. Asset Master Record Change.......................................................................................49
2.1.1.3. Mass Change................................................................................................................49
2.1.2. Receipts...........................................................................................................................50
2.1.2.1. Direct Acquisition of Internal Activity.............................................................................50
2.1.2.2. Processing of Asset Acquisition....................................................................................50
2.1.2.3. Subsequent Acquisition................................................................................................52
2.1.3. Depreciation.....................................................................................................................52
2.1.3.1. Creation of Reserves from Gain from Asset Retirement...............................................52
2.1.3.2. Reserves Carry forward................................................................................................52
2.1.3.3. Depreciation Processing...............................................................................................53
2.1.3.4. Manual Depreciation Planning......................................................................................53
2.1.3.5. Depreciation Posting.....................................................................................................54
2.1.3.6. Unit-of-Production Depreciation....................................................................................54
2.1.4. Business Transactions.....................................................................................................54
2.1.4.1. Settlement of Asset under Construction........................................................................54
2.1.4.2. Post-capitalization.........................................................................................................56
2.1.4.3. Write-up 56
2.1.4.4. Reposting......................................................................................................................56
2.1.5. Specific Valuations...........................................................................................................57
2.1.5.1. Closing of Insurance Contract.......................................................................................57
2.1.5.2. Revaluation...................................................................................................................58
2.1.6. Group Requirements........................................................................................................58
2.1.6.1. Transfer Within a Client................................................................................................58
2.1.6.2. Creation of Master Record for Tangible Assets............................................................59
2.1.7. Retirements.....................................................................................................................59
2.1.7.1. Retirement....................................................................................................................59
2.1.7.2. Mass Retirement...........................................................................................................60
2.1.8. Closing Operations [Asset Accounting]............................................................................60
2.1.8.1. Multiple Valuations........................................................................................................61
2.1.8.2. Preparations for Year-End Closing in Asset Management............................................61
2.1.8.3. Depreciation Simulation / Forecast...............................................................................61
2.1.8.4. Mass Change................................................................................................................62
2.1.8.5. Recalculation of Depreciation.......................................................................................62
2.1.8.6. Depreciation posting.....................................................................................................63
2.1.8.7. Carry Out Year-End Closing in Asset Management......................................................63
2.1.8.8. Periodic Reports...........................................................................................................64
2.2. Handling of Leased Assets.................................................................................................64
2.2.1. Asset Maintenance..........................................................................................................65
2.2.1.1. Asset Master Record Change.......................................................................................65
2.2.1.2. Mass Change................................................................................................................65
2.2.2. Receipts...........................................................................................................................66
2.2.2.1. Acquisition of Leased Asset..........................................................................................66
2.2.3. Depreciation.....................................................................................................................66
2.2.3.1. Depreciation Processing...............................................................................................66
2.2.3.2. Depreciation Posting.....................................................................................................67
2.2.4. Business Transactions.....................................................................................................67
2.2.4.1. Transfer Leased Asset..................................................................................................67
2.2.4.2. Change in a Leasing Agreement N/A............................................................................67
2.2.5. Specific Valuations...........................................................................................................68
2.2.5.1. Closing of Insurance Contract.......................................................................................68
2.2.6. Retirements.....................................................................................................................69
2.2.6.1. Retirement of Leased Asset N/A...................................................................................69
2.2.7. Closing Operations..........................................................................................................70
2.2.7.1. Multiple Valuations........................................................................................................70
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2.2.7.2. Preparations for Year-End Closing in Asset Management............................................71
2.2.7.3. Depreciation Simulation / Forecast...............................................................................71
2.2.7.4. Mass Change................................................................................................................72
2.2.7.5. Recalculation of Depreciation.......................................................................................72
2.2.7.6. Depreciation Posting.....................................................................................................72
2.2.7.7. Carry Out Year-End Closing in Asset Management......................................................73
2.2.7.8. Periodic Reports...........................................................................................................73
D. Organization.................................................................................................................................76
1. Cross-Application/Central Organizational Units.....................................................................76
1.1. Controlling Area..................................................................................................................76
1.2. Profit Center........................................................................................................................77
1.3. Operating Concern..............................................................................................................78
E. Master Data..................................................................................................................................79
1. Revenue and Cost Controlling...............................................................................................79
1.1. Overhead Cost Controlling..................................................................................................79
1.1.1. Cost Element...................................................................................................................79
1.1.1.1. Primary Cost Element...................................................................................................79
1.1.1.2. Secondary Cost Element..............................................................................................79
1.1.1.3. Cost Element Group.....................................................................................................79
1.1.2. Cost Center......................................................................................................................79
1.1.2.1. Cost Center...................................................................................................................79
1.1.2.2. Standard Hierarchy for Cost Centers............................................................................79
1.1.2.3. Cost Center Group........................................................................................................80
1.1.3. Activity Type....................................................................................................................80
1.1.3.1. Activity Type.................................................................................................................80
1.1.3.2. Activity Type Group.......................................................................................................80
1.1.4. Statistical Key Figures.....................................................................................................80
1.1.4.1. Statistical Key Figures..................................................................................................80
1.1.4.2. Statistical Key Figure Group.........................................................................................81
1.1.5. Business Process............................................................................................................81
1.1.5.1. Business Process.........................................................................................................81
1.1.5.2. Standard Hierarchy for Business Processes.................................................................81
1.1.5.3. Business Process Group..............................................................................................81
1.1.6. Internal Order...................................................................................................................82
1.2. Product Cost Controlling.....................................................................................................82
1.2.1. Procurement Alternative..................................................................................................82
1.2.2. Cost Component..............................................................................................................82
1.2.3. Product Cost Collectors...................................................................................................83
1.2.4. Material Ledger Data.......................................................................................................84
1.3. Profitability Analysis............................................................................................................84
1.3.1. Characteristics.................................................................................................................84
1.3.1.1. Characteristic Definition................................................................................................84
1.3.1.2. Characteristic Values....................................................................................................84
1.3.1.3. Characteristic Derivation...............................................................................................85
1.3.2. Value Fields.....................................................................................................................85
1.3.2.1. Definition of Value Fields..............................................................................................85
1.3.3. Condition Types...............................................................................................................86
1.3.3.1. Definition of Condition Types........................................................................................86
F. Business Processes.....................................................................................................................86
1. Revenue and Cost Controlling...............................................................................................86
1.1. Profit and Cost Planning.....................................................................................................86
1.1.1. Cost and Activity Planning...............................................................................................86
1.1.1.1. Copy Plan from Previous Year to Cost Center Planning...............................................86
1.1.1.2. Copy Actual Data to Cost Center Plan..........................................................................87
1.1.1.3. Redefinition of Plan Version..........................................................................................87
1.1.1.4. Planning Revaluation....................................................................................................87
1.1.1.5. Budget Planning............................................................................................................87
1.1.1.6. Order Budgeting............................................................................................................88
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1.1.1.7. Activity Type Planning...................................................................................................88
1.1.1.8. Definition of Activity Type for Cost Center....................................................................88
1.1.1.9. Transfer of Statistical Key Figures from LIS (Plan).......................................................88
1.1.1.10. Transfer of Depreciation/Interest (Activity-Independent).............................................89
1.1.1.11. Transfer of Depreciation/Interest (Activity-Dependent)...............................................89
1.1.1.12. Transfer of Personnel Costs.......................................................................................89
1.1.1.13. Transfer of Scheduled Activity PP -> CO-ABC...........................................................89
1.1.1.14. Transfer of Scheduled Activity from PP to CO-OM-CCA............................................90
1.1.1.15. Primary Cost Planning (Full Costs).............................................................................90
1.1.1.16. Primary Cost Planning (Prop./Fixed)...........................................................................90
1.1.1.17. Secondary Cost Planning (Full Costs)........................................................................90
1.1.1.18. Secondary Cost Planning (Prop./Fixed)......................................................................90
1.1.1.19. Cost Element Planning (Order with Integrated Planning)............................................91
1.1.1.20. Cost Element Planning (Order)...................................................................................91
1.1.1.21. Overall Planning (Order).............................................................................................91
1.1.1.22. Unit Costing (Order)....................................................................................................91
1.1.1.23. Easy Cost Planning and Execution Services (CO)......................................................91
1.1.1.24. Periodic Reposting of Plan Data.................................................................................92
1.1.1.25. Cost Accrual - Plan.....................................................................................................92
1.1.1.26. Process Cost Planning................................................................................................92
1.1.1.27. Overhead Calculation (Cost Center)...........................................................................92
1.1.1.28. Overhead Calculation (Business Process)..................................................................92
1.1.1.29. Overhead Calculation (Overhead Cost Order)............................................................97
1.1.1.30. Plan Cost Distribution.................................................................................................97
1.1.1.31. Settlement of Overhead Cost Orders (Planning Data)................................................97
1.1.1.32. Plan Cost Assessment................................................................................................98
1.1.1.33. Plan Reconciliation.....................................................................................................98
1.1.1.34. Splitting 98
1.1.1.35. Planned Price Calculation...........................................................................................99
1.1.2. Product Cost Planning.....................................................................................................99
1.1.2.1. Preparation for Costing.................................................................................................99
1.1.2.2. Standard Cost Estimate with Quantity Structure...........................................................100
1.1.2.3. Standard Cost Estimate Without Quantity Structure.....................................................101
1.1.2.4. Standard Cost Estimate for Co-Products......................................................................102
1.1.2.5. Costing Analysis...........................................................................................................102
1.1.2.6. Price Release with Standard Cost Estimate.................................................................102
1.1.2.7. Reference and Simulation Costing................................................................................103
1.1.2.8. Easy Cost Planning and Execution Services (CO)........................................................103
1.1.3. Profit Center Planning......................................................................................................103
1.1.3.1. Copy Plan from Previous Year -> Profit Center Planning.............................................103
1.1.3.2. Copy Actual Costs -> Profit Center Planning................................................................104
1.1.3.3. Redefinition of Plan Version (Profit Center Planning)...................................................104
1.1.3.4. Excel Upload -> Profit Center Planning........................................................................104
1.1.3.5. Plan Integration of Profit Centers..................................................................................104
1.1.3.6. Manual Profit Center Planning......................................................................................104
1.1.3.7. Profit Center Distribution: Plan......................................................................................105
1.1.3.8. Plan: Profit Center Assessment....................................................................................105
1.1.3.9. Profit Center Analysis...................................................................................................105
1.2. Actual Cost/Revenue Allocation..........................................................................................105
1.2.1. Overhead Allocation.........................................................................................................105
1.2.1.1. Direct Activity Assignment Using Time Sheet Processing............................................105
1.2.1.2. Time Sheet Permit........................................................................................................106
1.2.1.3. Transfer Time Sheet Data to CO..................................................................................106
1.2.1.4. Time Sheet Report........................................................................................................106
1.2.1.5. Direct Activity Allocation (Controlling)...........................................................................107
1.2.1.6. Transfer of Primary Costs to Cost Center/Order...........................................................107
1.2.1.7. Manual Funds Reservation...........................................................................................107
1.2.1.8. Manual Funds Reduction..............................................................................................107
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1.2.1.9. Manual Cost Allocation.................................................................................................108
1.2.2. Product Cost Allocation....................................................................................................108
1.2.2.1. Simultaneous Costing...................................................................................................108
1.2.3. Profit Center Allocation....................................................................................................109
1.2.3.1. Actual Data Transfers on Profit Center.........................................................................109
1.2.3.2. Document Entry in Profit Center Accounting.................................................................109
1.2.3.3. Actual Transfer of Additional Balance Sheet Items to EC-PCA....................................109
1.2.3.4. Manual Entry of Statistical Key Figures........................................................................109
1.2.4. Cost and Revenue Allocation to Profitability Analysis......................................................109
1.2.4.1. Transfer and Valuation of Incoming Sales Orders........................................................109
1.2.4.2. Transfer and Valuation of Billing Documents (Direct Sale)...........................................110
1.2.4.3. Transfer and Valuation of Billing Documents (Third-Party Transaction).......................110
1.2.4.4. Transfer and Valuation of Billing Documents (Inter-company Processing)...................111
1.2.4.5. Transfer and Valuation of Billing Documents (Complaints Processing)........................111
1.2.4.6. Transfer of Customer Agreements to Profitability Analysis...........................................111
1.2.4.7. Direct Posting of Costs and Revenues From FI............................................................111
1.2.4.8. Automatic Additional Transfer into Profitability Analysis...............................................112
1.3. Period-End Closing (Controlling)........................................................................................113
1.3.1. Period-End Closing in Overhead Cost Controlling...........................................................113
1.3.1.1. Actual Periodic Reposting.............................................................................................113
1.3.1.2. Accrual Calculation in Cost Center Accounting (Target = Actual Method)....................113
1.3.1.3. Accrual Calculation in Cost Center Accounting (Percentage Method)..........................113
1.3.1.4. Actual Cost Distribution.................................................................................................113
1.3.1.5. Entry of Sender Activities..............................................................................................114
1.3.1.6. Actual Indirect Activity Allocation (Manual Entry)..........................................................114
1.3.1.7. Actual Indirect Activity Allocation (Indirect Entry)..........................................................114
1.3.1.8. Target=Actual Activity Allocation...................................................................................115
1.3.1.9. Template Allocation (Overhead Cost Order).................................................................115
1.3.1.10. Overhead Calculation (Overhead Cost Order)............................................................115
1.3.1.11. Settlement of Overhead Orders (Actual Data)............................................................115
1.3.1.12. Settlement of Accrual Orders......................................................................................116
1.3.1.13. Actual Cost Assessment.............................................................................................116
1.3.1.14. Overhead Calculation (Business Process)..................................................................116
1.3.1.15. Variance Calculation for Overhead.............................................................................121
1.3.1.16. Pre-distribution of Fixed Costs....................................................................................121
1.3.1.17. Splitting 122
1.3.1.18. Actual Price Calculation..............................................................................................122
1.3.1.19. Revaluation at Actual Prices.......................................................................................122
1.3.1.20. Reconciliation Financial Accounting/Controlling.........................................................123
1.3.1.21. Business Process Analysis.........................................................................................123
1.3.1.22. Cost Center Analysis..................................................................................................123
1.3.1.23. Analysis of Overhead Orders......................................................................................123
1.3.2. Period-End Closing: Periodic Product Cost Controlling...................................................123
1.3.2.1. Template Allocation (Cost Object)................................................................................123
1.3.2.2. Revaluation at Actual Prices.........................................................................................124
1.3.2.3. Actual Cost Distribution - Product Costs.......................................................................124
1.3.2.4. Overhead Calculation (Cost Object).............................................................................124
1.3.2.5. Template Allocation (Product Cost Collector)...............................................................124
1.3.2.6. Overhead Calculation (Product Cost Collector)............................................................125
1.3.2.7. WIP Calculation Based on Target Costs.......................................................................125
1.3.2.8. Periodic Variance Calculation.......................................................................................125
1.3.2.9. Settlement of Cost Object Hierarchy.............................................................................126
1.3.2.10. Settlement of Product Cost Collector..........................................................................126
1.3.2.11. Data Collection for Product Drilldown.........................................................................126
1.3.2.12. Product Cost Analysis in Product Cost by Period.......................................................127
1.3.3. Period-End Closing for Profit Center Accounting.............................................................127
1.3.3.1. Profit Center Distribution: Actual...................................................................................127
1.3.3.2. Actual Profit Center Assessment..................................................................................127
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1.3.3.3. Profit Center Analysis...................................................................................................127
1.3.4. Period-End Closing for Profitability Analysis....................................................................128
1.3.4.1. Settlement of Sales Orders...........................................................................................128
1.3.4.2. Settlement of Production Variances..............................................................................128
1.3.4.3. Settlement of Internal Orders (Actual Data)..................................................................128
1.3.4.4. Project Settlement.........................................................................................................128
1.3.4.5. Actual Allocation of Process Costs to Profitability Analysis...........................................129
1.3.4.6. Actual Allocation of Cost Center Costs to Profitability Analysis....................................129
1.3.4.7. Actual Top-Down Distribution.......................................................................................129
1.3.4.8. Analysis of Results and Contribution Margins...............................................................130
A Organization
1. Cross-Application/Central Organizational Units
1.1. Company
Questions:
A: One entity
A: At present - No
A: At present, N/A
Q: 4) In which currencies are the transactions posted in the companies?
A: At present, N/A
A: At present, N/A
A: At present, N/A
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Q: 7) Does the divestiture of a company entail a reclassification to another
consolidation group, or is this a final consolidation?
A: At present, N/A
Questions:
A: depends on customers
Q: 3) If you are not using SAP's Sales and Distribution component, how will
you perform credit checks and which actions will they trigger?
A: N/A
1.3. Company Code
Questions:
Q: 1) Which legal entities (company codes) will you have and in which
countries?
Q: 2) What are the legal reporting requirements that these companies have
to comply with?
A: At present, N/A
A: At present, N/A
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Q: 5) Will a different chart of accounts be used for consolidation purposes?
A: At present, N/A
A: At present, N/A
A: At present, N/A
A: At present, N/A
A: At present, N/A
Q: 10) Identify the legal entities that should be excluded from the
consolidation process. Please specify why they have to be excluded.
A: At present, N/A
Q: 11) For which enterprise entities that are not independent legal entities
do you require sub ledgers (accounts payable ledger, accounts receivable
ledger, asset accounting and so on)? For example, fixed assets per strategic
business unit. ).
A: At present, N/A
A: At present, N/A
Questions:
A:
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Q: 2) Are you using one centralized controlling system or do you follow a
decentralized approach with several independent controlling systems?
A: One
Q: 3) Provided that company codes use the same chart of accounts and
fiscal year variant: Which company code(s) do you want to assign to your
controlling area(s)?
A: At present, N/A
A: BHD
A: BALCO
1.5 Profit Center
Questions:
Q: 1) Which criteria do you use for dividing your organization into internal
areas of responsibility?
Q: 3) Can you make unique profit center assignments for the following
master data: material/plant, cost center, sales order item, cost objects,
internal orders etc.?
A: Yes
Q: 4) As well as the "actual" profit centers, do you use any other profit
center, which provides services for various other profit centers (a service
profit center)?
A: Yes
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Q: 8) Can the structure of your Profit Center (standard hierarchy) be
directly derived from the enterprise organization?
A: Yes
Questions:
Q: 1) Are you using one central profitability controlling system (system from
an organizational viewpoint) or do you follow a decentralized approach with
several independent profitability controlling systems?
A: One concern
A: BALCO
A: BHD
Questions:
A: Same
A: Yes
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1.7 Plant
Questions:
Q: 1) Are all plants in the same country? List the plants and countries.
A: Yes, as of now
Q: 2) Do you need special plants for your maintenance work apart from the
common logistics plants?
A: No
A: No
2. Financial Accounting
2.1. Chart of Accounts
Questions:
A: BALCO now
A: <1000
A: Stands alone
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Q: 4) Describe how the account number is set up (for example: department,
natural account).
A: 100/200/300/400 – ASSET/liability/Income/Expenditure
A: Yes, by FM
A: English
A: English
A: Given separately
3. Asset Accounting
Questions:
A: BALCO now
Questions:
A: At present, N/A
Questions:
A: India now
A: At present, N/A
Questions:
Q: 1) Describe how your fixed assets are structured in the balance sheet?
A: Copy given
Q: 2) How do you classify your fixed assets at the moment? How do you
intend to classify your assets in the future?
A: List given
Q: 3 Do you manage low value assets (LVAs) as fixed assets, or do you post
them directly to an expense account?
A: At present – yes; But we would like to capitalize them for one year and
transfer to another data ledger for control by respective departments
Q: 4 Please list, or provide a list of the asset types that you intend to
manage in the Asset Accounting system (e.g. Land, Buildings, Intangibles,
etc).
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Q: 5 For each asset category (asset class), list the default depreciation
method and the period of depreciation you would like to use.
B. Master Data
1. General Master Records
1.1. Customer Master Record
A: N/A
A: Bank transfers
A: -
Questions:
A: Yes
A: No
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Q: 3) Do you have vendors who are subject to withholding tax?
A: No
Questions:
Q: 1) Which banks and bank accounts will you be using for incoming and
outgoing payments?
A: USD,BD, EUR
A: [X] Yes
[ ] No
1.4. Taxes
Questions:
A: N/A
A: N/A
2. Financial Accounting
2.1. G/L Account
Questions:
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Q: 1) What procedure do you use when you need to create new account
numbers?
A: Centralized
Q: 2) Can you define groups of general ledger accounts that require similar
information in the master record?
A: Yes
Q: 4) For which general ledger accounts do you wish to display line items?
A: AP, AR, CWIP, Accruals, GIT and all items needing the breakdown from
audit point of view
Q: 5) Which accounts do you wish to manage on an open item basis (for
example, bank clearing accounts)?
A: N/A
2.2. Ledger
Questions:
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Q: 2) Do you have special statutory accounting requirements that are not
covered in other R/3 applications? Example: Currency translation of a
foreign subsidiary, different fiscal year ends to the international trading
partner.
A: No
3. Asset Accounting
Questions:
Q: 1) How many fixed assets and how many assets under construction do
you currently have?
A: About 10000
A: BALCO
A: Internally
Q: 4) Do you see a business need to use both internal and external number
assignment, depending on the asset class? If so, please specify.
A: [ ]Yes
[ X ]No
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Q: 7) Are cost centers (business areas) to be defined in the asset master
record on a time-dependent basis?
A: No
A: Yes
A: No
Q: 11) How do you archive your asset master records at the present time?
Q: 12) How long do you intend to continue to manage assets, which are no
longer on hand physically, in the system?
C. Business Processes
1. Financial Accounting
1.1. Basic Settings
1.1.1. Fiscal Year and Posting Periods
A: Yes
A: Yes
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Q: 3) If your fiscal year is not identical with the calendar year, please
provide a schedule of period closing for the past, current and next year.
A: N/A
Q: 4) Do all your company codes have the same fiscal year/fiscal year
variant? Provide a detail if this is not the case.
A: N/A
A: December
A: Management Accountant
1.1.2. Document
Questions:
A: Transaction based
A: No
A: Yes
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1.1.3. Posting Help
Questions:
A: Templates, etc
Questions:
Q: 1) Value added tax: Which are the current tax rates in the countries of
your company codes?
A: At present, N/A
A: N/A
A: At present, N/A
A: N/A
A: N/A
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Explanation: Is tax calculated on the amount after cash discount?
A: N/A
A: N/A
Q: 9) Do you use a particular exchange rate for taxes? If so, please specify.
A: N/A
1.1.5. Withholding Tax
Questions:
A: N/A
Q: 2) How do you transmit this information to the tax authorities and your
vendors?
A: N/A
Questions:
Questions:
A: List given
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Q: 2) Which internal documents do you need to print?
Questions:
Questions:
A: Yes
Questions:
Questions:
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1.2.4. Closing Operations
Questions:
A: ?
Q: 3) Describe your current process and time frame for year-end closing.
A: 3 weeks
A: N/A
Questions:
A: We need this
1.2.4.2. GR/IR Clearing Account Maintenance
Questions:
A: Yes
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1.2.4.3. Financial Statement Creation
Questions:
A: Everyday
Questions:
Q: 2) What type of information flow do you have for the results of periodic
asset reporting?
Q: 3) What are the critical monthly, quarterly and annual reports that you
need for Asset Accounting?
A: Manually done
Q: 5) Are there any particular reports you would like for low value assets?
A: Yes
Q: 6) Are there any particular reports you run for leased assets?
A: Yes
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Q: 8) By which organizational units (or combinations of units) are asset
reporting functions structured (for example, company, cost center etc)?
Questions:
1.2.5. Integration
Questions:
Questions:
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Q: 2) Please describe the complete process currently in place for down
payments, including the postings that are generated.
A: As per SOP
A: [ ] Yes
[ ] No.
Questions:
Q: 1) What are your internal procedures and controls from the point of
invoice receipt to payment?
Questions:
A: Authority levels
Questions:
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Q: 1) Which invoices that are not related to a purchase order do you
typically post?
A: N/A
A: Net
1.3.2.3. Vendor Credit Memo
Questions:
Questions:
A: It should be traceable
A: Yes
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1.3.2.5. Recurring Entry
Questions:
Questions:
Questions:
Questions:
Questions:
A: Both
A: N/A
A: Yes
A: Net
A: [x]Yes
[ ]No
A: Manually done
Q: 14) How do you transfer your electronic payment file to the bank?
A:
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1.3.4.1. Vendor Payment Request
Questions:
A: Not normally
1.3.4.2. Release for Payment
Questions:
Q: 1) How do you release invoices that have been blocked for payment?
Questions:
A: Print
1.3.4.4. Automatic Outgoing Payments
Questions:
Q: 1) How do you post payments? Which G/L accounts are used? Which
additional account assignments (for example, cost centers) do you need for
bank postings, bank charges ac counts, cash discount accounts, and
exchange rate differences?
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Explanation: Payment method indicator: Selecting payment order and not
payment posting means that the payment program: does not post a payment
document does not clear the paid items. does not clear the paid items.
Instead, a payment order is created and saved. The information
contained therein can be used to clear the item at a later date.
contained therein can be used to clear the item at a later date. The
posting of the payment occurs with the account statement of the bank
and selection of the associated open items via entry of the payment
order. payment order. The paid items are locked until the payment is
posted. This means that they cannot be used in other clearing
transactions or further payment runs.
A: Daily
Q: 5) Which bank account(s) are used for payments? List the bank accounts
by payment method, by foreign currency, or any other criteria relevant for
bank selection.
Q: 6) How does your actual cash position influence the way you assign funds
to the different banks in the payment program?
A: Manual Entry
1.3.4.5. Vendor Payment Medium Creation
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Questions:
A: N/A at present
A: N/A at present
Questions:
Q: 1) In which cases are open items cleared other than through payment
receipts?
Advance payment and partial payment.
Questions:
A: good received / BG
Questions:
A: no body now
1.3.6.1. Vendor Account Balance Interest Calculation
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Questions:
A: N/A now
A: N/A now
1.3.6.2. 00Calculation of Interest on Arrears – Vendors
N/A now
Questions:
A: N/A now
A: N/A now
Questions:
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1.4. Accounts Receivable
1.4.1. Customer Down Payments
Questions:
0
Explanation: Comment for PS: Note that it is possible to configure the use
of milestones such that a down payment request is automatically triggered.
When the milestone is completed, the request is generated by the
settlement run.
A: [ x ]Yes
[ ]No
A: [ x]Yes
[ ]No
Questions:
0
Q: 1) How do you process customer down payments?
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N/A now
Explanation: Identification for separate reconciliation accounts
A: N/A now
Q: 2) How are these down payments cleared with the customer account?
A: N/A now
Questions:
A: yes
A: work flow
1.4.2.2. Outgoing Invoice
Questions:
yes
Explanation: Reference documents, for example
A: yes
Questions:
A: Adjust to account
1.4.2.4. Document Reversal
Questions:
A: yes
0
Q: 2) Do you want do define a specific document type for reverse
documents?
A: Yes
1.4.2.5. Recurring Entry
00
Questions:
A: Yes
Questions:
A: [ x ]Yes.
[ ]No
Questions:
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Questions:
N/A now
Explanation: Time of credit limit check; Relevant documents for the credit
limit check; Consequences of credit limit check (Notification of person
responsible, locking of documents and so on)
A: ageing
1.4.3.4. Customer Evaluations
0
Questions:
Questions:
A: N/A now
A: N/A now
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Questions:0
A: [x ]Yes
[ ]No
A: [ x ]Yes
[ ]No
Questions:
Q: 1) How do you release invoices that have been blocked for payment?
Questions:
A: Yes
1.4.4.4. Automatic Incoming Payments
Questions:
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Q: 1) How do you post payments? Which G/L accounts are used? Which
addition00al account assignments (for example, cost centers) do you need
for bank postings, bank charges ac counts, cash discount accounts, and
exchange rate differences?
A: SAP standard
A: N/A now
A: Not now
Questions:
A: N/A
Questions:
A: No
1.4.4.6. Manual Payment by Bill of Exchange
Questions:
A: N/A now
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1.4.4.7. Bill of Exchange Usage
Questions:
A: no
Questions:
Q: 1) In which cases are open items cleared other than through payment
receipts?
A: Invoice cancellations
1.4.5.1. Automatic Clearing
Questions:
A: Against receipts
Questions:
A: first day after due date ( daily) , weekly for marketing (internally)
A: yes
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A: correspondence to customers
A: 4
Q: 6) Which organizational units are responsible for dunning (for example,
company code, division)?
A: yes
Questions:
A: N/A now
A: N/A now
A: N/A now
Q: 4) What types of notices do you send to your customers and how often?
A: N/A now
Questions:
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A: N/A now
A: N/A now
A: N/A now
A: N/A now
Q: 5) What types of notices do you send to your customers and how often?
Questions:
0
Q: 1) What sort of correspondence (account statements, balance
confirmations, for example) and internal evaluations (internal documents,
account balances, open item lists, for example) do you create for your
customers?
Questions:
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Q: 1) How do you manage incoming cash?
00
Q: 3) How are these business transactions posted?
A: SAP settings
1.5.1.2. Manual Account Statement
Questions:
Q: 2) Does you house bank transfer business transaction codes with the
ba0nk statements to help you classify the postings?
A: Not now
A: ?
A: ?
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Questions:
Q: 1) How many checks do you present to your house banks per day?
A: Manually
0
Q: 3) What information given by the check issuer can be used to allocate
items (check number, invoice number)?
A: invoice number
Q: 4) Sketch the posting steps for check deposits (are checks posted
directly to customer accounts or via clearing accounts)?
Questions:
A: NA
Questions:
A: ?
Questions:
A: [X ]Yes
[ ]No
Questions:
A: Variable
A: N/A
A: N/A
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2. Asset Accounting
Questions:
A: no now
Q: 2) Does the fiscal year for asset accounting correspond to the calendar
year? If not, specify the start and end dates of your fiscal year.
A: yes
A: [ ]Yes
[ x]No
Questions:
A: yes
A: ECO, IO, MA
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A: ?
Q: 4) The asset master record can be divided up into tab pages. How
should the asset master record field groups be ordered for your
organization?
SAP possible
A: SAP standard
Questions:
A: no same people
A: frequently
A:
Questions:
A: MA CFA FM
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Q: 2) Do you need to make changes to a large number of assets
simultaneously?
A: [X ]Yes
[ ]No
A: Occasionally
2.1.2. Receipts
Questions:
Bd 1000
Explanation: Amount limit for low-value assets
Questions:
A: yes
A: yes
A: yes
Questions:
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Q: 1) Describe the information flow for asset acquisitions in your
enterprise.
A: PO then invoice
yes
Explanation: Acquisition integrated via invoice receipt/goods receipt
(Logistics - Materials Management) Acquisition via goods receipt - accounts
payable accounting Acquisition with automatic clearing account offsetting
entry
A: net booking
A: Net basis
A: no now
A: yes
A: Information required
A: yes
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Q: 9) Do you keep a record of costs using acquisitions to the asset under
construction? yes
A: Yes
Q: 10) Do you plan and budget for capital investments in your enterprise?
Should assets that are capitalized directly also be included in the planning
and budgeting processes?
A: yes
Questions:
2.1.3. Depreciation
2.1.3.1. Creation of Reserves from Gain from Asset
Retirement
Questions:
A: N/A now
Questions:
A: [ ]Yes
[ x]No
Q: 2) If so, provide examples. How do you post? What are the reasons?
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A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) What are the methods of depreciation that you are currently using?
A: no
A: N/A now
A: N/A now
A: N/A now
A: monthly
Questions:
A: no
A: N/A now
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Q: 3) When do you use unplanned depreciation?
We need
A:
2.1.3.5. Depreciation Posting
Questions:
A: cost centers
A: monthly
A: no
A: list
A: yes
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you use the unit of production method for certain assets? If so,
please specify.
A: not now
Questions:
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Q: 1) Do you wish to manage "Assets under construction" in Asset
Accounting? If yes, describe the capitalization process.
A:
A: [ ]Yes
[ x]No
A: facility
A: asset
A: [x ]Yes
[ ]No
A: technical completion
A: [ x]Yes
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[ ]No
Q: 10) What kind of information flow do you have for the settlement of
down payments? BG
A: BG related information
2.1.4.2. Post-capitalization
Questions:
A: no
A: Not required
2.1.4.3. Write-up
Questions:
A: It is possible
Q: 2) Describe the reasons for a fixed asset revaluation, the process used,
and give examples of the assets which are to be revaluated.
N/A now
A:
Q: 2) Do you sometimes split an asset into one or more new assets? If so,
please specify.
A: N/A now
A: N/A now
A: N/A now
A: N/A now
Questions:
A: [x ]Yes
[ ]No
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A: BNI
A: [ x ]Yes
[ ]No
A: expert valuation
A: sometime
A: no
A: no
A: normal PO
2.1.5.2. Revaluation
Questions:
Questions:
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A: N/A now
Questions:
A: N/A now
A: PA
A: Finance
Q: 4) The asset master record can be divided up into tab pages. How
should the asset master record field groups be ordered for your
organization?
SAP order
Explanation: Customizing layout of screen layout and assignment to asset
class.
A:
2.1.7. Retirements
2.1.7.1. Retirement
Questions:
A: [ ]Yes
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[ ]No N/A now
A: Finance
2.1.7.2. Mass Retirement
Questions:
A: Yes
A: Very rare
Questions:
A: N/A
Q: 3) What activities are included in the year-end closing process for asset
accounting?
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Q: 4) Which internal and external asset valuations belong to year-end
closing process? Please provide a sample of all required valuations.
A: N/A
2.1.8.1. Multiple Valuations
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you have parallel valuation for your asset, e.g. for group
valuation, for cost accounting purposes or for legal reasons?
A: No, now
A: Not necessary
A: No
Questions:
A: December 31
A: No
Q: 3) Are leased assets treated like any other fixed assets in year-end
closing?
A: N/A now
Questions:
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Q: 1) Do you simulate retirements of low value assets in your asset history
sheet?
A: Yes
A: Mainly Straight Line Method; but options can be there for projection.
Questions:
A: MA / FM
A: [x]Yes
[ ]No
Questions:
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2.1.8.6. Depreciation posting
Questions:
A: Yes
A: Monthly
A: No
A: List Given
A: To be posted
Questions:
Q: 1) How do you conduct the physical inventory for fixed assets (e.g.
manually, using barcode scanner)?
A: PA
A: NA
Q: 4) Do you create inventory lists using the SAP R/3 System, or using a
non-SAP system?
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A: NO
2.1.8.8. Periodic Reports
Questions:
Q: 2) What type of information flow do you have for the results of periodic
asset reporting?
A: ?
Q: 3) What are the critical monthly, quarterly and annual reports that you
need for Asset Accounting?
A: Yes
A: N/A
Questions:
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A: N/A
Questions:
A: [ ]Yes
[x]No
A: No
A: We want to record
A: [x]Yes
[ ]No
Questions:
A: MA/FM
A: [x]Yes
[ ] No
Questions:
A: N/A now
Q: 2) Describe the process for the acquisition of a leased asset, from the
purchase order to capitalization in Asset Accounting.
A: N/A now
2.2.3. Depreciation
2.2.3.1. Depreciation Processing
Questions:
Q: 1) What are the methods of depreciation that you are currently using?
A: N/A
Q: 3) Do you calculate depreciation values to the day?
A: Monthly
Q: 4) In certain cases do you change over from a declining-balance
depreciation to straight-line depreciation? If so, when?
A: N/A
A: Not now
A: No
Questions:
A: Yes
A: Monthly
A: No
A: List given
Questions:
A: [ ]Yes
[x] No
A: N/A
2.2.4.2. Change in a Leasing Agreement N/A
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Questions:
A: N/A
A: N/A
A: N/A
A: N/A
Questions:
A: N/A
A: N/A
Questions:
A: [x]Yes
[ ]No
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Q: 2) With which insurance companies do you have insurance agreements?
A: BNI
A: [x]Yes
[ ]No
A: External assessment
A: Sometimes
A: No
A: N/A
A: Separately through AP
2.2.6. Retirements
2.2.6.1. Retirement of Leased Asset N/A
Questions:
A: N/A
Q: 2) What is your process for retiring leased assets? Please describe the
postings.
A: N/A
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.
Q: 3) Do you normally buy leased assets after expiration of the leasing
contract or do you return them to the lessor?
A: N/A
Questions:
A: SAP
A: SAP
Q: 3) What activities are included in the year-end closing process for asset
accounting?
A: SAP
A: SAP
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you have parallel valuation for your asset, e.g. for group
valuation, for cost accounting purposes or for legal reasons?
A: SAP
A: SAP
A: SAP
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2.2.7.2. Preparations for Year-End Closing in Asset
Management
Questions:
A: 31st December
A: Yes, now
Q: 3) Are leased assets treated like any other fixed assets in year-end
closing?
A: NA
Questions:
A: [X ]Yes
[ ]No
A: Yes
A: Yes
A: Yes
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Q: 5) Do you include additional asset transactions in the simulation? If so,
which transactions are relevant?
A: NA
2.2.7.4. Mass Change
Questions:
A: MA/FM
A: [ X ]Yes
[ ]No
Questions:
A: No
A: Normally not
2.2.7.6. Depreciation Posting
Questions:
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A: No
A: Monthly
A: No
A: List given
Questions:
Q: 1) How do you conduct the physical inventory for fixed assets (e.g.
manually, using barcode scanner)?
A: NA
Q: 4) Do you create inventory lists using the SAP R/3 System, or using a
non-SAP system?
A: SAP system
2.2.7.8. Periodic Reports
Questions:
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Explanation: see subsidiary ledgers too.
Q: 2) What type of information flow do you have for the results of periodic
asset reporting?
A: ?
Q: 3) What are the critical monthly, quarterly and annual reports that you
need for Asset Accounting?
Q: 5) Are there any particular reports you would like for low value assets?
Q: 6) Are there any particular reports you run for leased assets?
A: NA
A: Yes
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Business Blueprint
CONTROLLING
BALCO
BAHRAIN
Created by:
Date of creation:
Changed by:
Version:
Explanation: OSS note 107293: Decision criteria for or against cross-company code cost
accounting.
Q: 2) Are you using one centralized controlling system or do you follow a decentralized
approach with several independent controlling systems?
Explanation: Are you using one centralized controlling system (system from an
organizational viewpoint) or do you follow a decentralized approach with several
independent controlling systems? (Decentralized means that, from a management
viewpoint, your organization is considered as independent entities)
A: Yes
Q: 3) Provided that company codes use the same chart of accounts and fiscal year
variant: Which company code(s) do you want to assign to your controlling area(s)?
Q: 4) If you have multiple controlling areas: Do you intend to have management charge-
outs (allocations) across those controlling areas?
A: NA
Q: 5) If you wish to have unified Controlling, which currency or currencies are you
planning to use?
Explanation: When using transfer prices, the controlling area currency 10 (= company code
currency) or 30 (=group currency) must be used.
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A: BALCO
Q: 1) Which criteria do you use for dividing your organization into internal areas of
responsibility?
Explanation: In other words, do you need to report on profit and loss data together with
balance sheet items for each strategic business unit (SBU)?
Q: 2) Do you want to structure your profit center accounting using the cost-of-sales
method (revenue minus cost-of-sales), or using period accounting (all revenues minus all
costs incurred in the period +/- inventory changes)?
Explanation: Note: If you require the cost-of-sales accounting method, you need to use the
functional areas.
A: NA, Period Accounting. The report required for getting the cost of sales accounting
would be met with either ABAP or BIW reports. It would be based on the profit center and
cost center accounting sub-modules.
Q: 3) Can you make unique profit center assignments for the following master data:
material/plant, cost center, sales order item, PSP elements, cost objects, internal orders
etc.?
A: Yes
Q: 4) As well as the "actual" profit centers, do you use any other profit center, which
provides services for various other profit centers (a service profit center)?
A: Production overheads and Corporate overheads would be as Profit Center other than
Products
Q: 5) If you require internal views for your organization's profits other than those in the
profit center hierarchy, specify additional groups/hierarchies.
A: NA
A: NA
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Q: 7) Do you want to use a unified, integrated user layout for the maintenance of your
enterprise organization in the SAP system? is there a serial number to
identify each piece of equipment from your production department and or
A: To be discussed with HR
Q: 8) Can the structure of your Profit Center (standard hierarchy) be directly derived
from the enterprise organization?
A: To be discussed with HR
Q: 1) Are you using one central profitability controlling system (system from an
organizational viewpoint) or do you follow a decentralized approach with several
independent profitability controlling systems?
Explanation: Note: This means that different enterprise branches are independent of each
other, which does not enable you to analyze their results usefully.
A: One Profitability controlling system. The idea of the operating concern is to get
segmental reports other than the product-wise for eg., you can derive profitability for
customers, regions etc.,
Q: 2) In SAP the operating concern is an organizational unit that spans one or more
controlling areas. Describe which controlling area(s) you want to assign to your Operating
Concern(s)!
Q: 3) What currency should be used for the operating concern? Do you require additional
evaluations in the company code currencies that correspond to FI?
Explanation: If you work with countries whose currencies are liable to extreme exchange
rate fluctuations, your data should be updated in company code currency.
A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No
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E. Master Data
1. Revenue and Cost Controlling
1.1. Overhead Cost Controlling
1.1.1. Cost Element
1.1.1.1. Primary Cost Element
Questions:
Q: 1) Define primary cost elements based on the definition of the chart of account.
Q: 2) Reserve a number range in the chart of accounts for the definition of CO-specific
accounts/primary cost elements: which additional primary cost elements do you need (such
as for accruals)?
A: The number range would be similar to the number range of the Charts of Accounts
Questions:
Q: 1) Define secondary cost elements for planning, allocation and reporting purposes.
A:
a) Internal Activity
b) Assessment
Questions:
Q: 1) Define cost element groups for planning, allocation, and reporting purposes.
A:
Questions:
Q: 1) Define cost centers as the lowest level in your organizational structure at which you
hold one person responsible for the expenses incurred (check whether you have covered
the whole organization).
A:
Questions:
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Q: 1) Take your corporate organizational structure and build a hierarchy according to
levels of responsibilities, with cost centers as the lowest level.
Questions:
Q: 1) Besides the standard hierarchy, do you need other alternative structure (groups) of
cost centers (for planning, allocation, and reporting purposes)?
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Define the type of activity performed by each cost center. Do this by defining one
or more measurable activity type(s) for each cost center.
A:
1. Staff costs
2. Operating Supplies
3. Maintenance costs
4. Production Overheads
5. Corporate overheads
6. Finance Charges
7. Depreciation
Q: 2) Since activity types are posted as secondary cost elements, have you specified the
secondary cost elements to which you want to assign the activity type (one-to-one, or one
cost element for more than one activity type)?
A:
1. Staff costs
2. Operating Supplies
3. Maintenance costs
4. Production Overheads
5. Corporate overheads
6. Finance Charges
7. Depreciation
Questions:
Q: 1) Group your activity types into different categories or similar attributes for planning,
allocation and reporting purposes.
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Questions:
Q: 1) Which statistical key figures do you want to use for allocations and reporting (such
as telephone units, headcount, and so on)?
A: Yet to be defined
Questions:
Q: 1) Define groups of statistical key figures (such as the group for all headcount
statistical figures).
A: Yet to be defined
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to define business processes across different areas of your organization
and plan, enter, and allocate overhead costs on the basis of these?
Explanation: Unlike activity types, business processes can receive costs from more than
one cost center. The process costs can then either be allocated to Cost Object Controlling,
or to Profitability Analysis.
A: [ ]Yes
[ X ]No
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Define the standard hierarchy of processes for planning, allocating and reporting
business process costs.
A: NA
Questions:
A: NA
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1.1.6. Internal Order
Questions:
Q: 1) What business criteria do you use to classify your internal orders (for example,
overhead orders, accrual orders, investment orders, statistical orders, and so on)?
A:
a) BALCO is required to map the cost of various vehicles, Employees
b) BALCO has assets under construction for building their capital assets
The accrual expenses of P&M orders which are not certified by the maintenance
department, how these can be captured?
Q: 2) What are the types of orders that will be used in the controlling area (such as
investments, marketing, etc.)?
A:
Q: 3) Should some of the orders be used for information purposes only - that is, should
the real posting be on the cost center?
A: Yes, the cost of vehicles and employees are required to have real posting to cost
centers and statistical posting to the orders for information purposes.
Questions:
Q: 1) Are you working with multiple supply sources (different vendors) or multiple
production methods (in-house production and subcontracting) for the same material?
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Define the structure of your product cost components (40 cost components max)!
A:
a. Gas
b. Electricity
c. Catalyst
d. Chemicals
e. Bags
f. Staff costs
g. Maintenance
h. Operating Supplies
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i. Production Overheads
j. Finance Charges
k. Depreciation
A:
l. Gas
m. Electricity
n. Catalyst
o. Chemicals
p. Bags
q. Staff costs
r. Maintenance
s. Operating Supplies
t. Factory Overheads
u. Finance Charges
v. Depreciation
Explanation: Define the calculation method for each cost component: 1. Activity quantity
x activity price 2. Material quantity x price (standard price, moving average price,
purchasing info record......) 3. Process quantity x process price 4. Percentage overhead
A:
1. Raw material = Material Quantity X Moving Average Price
2. Semi-finished products = Material Quantity X Standard Price
3. Finished products = Material Quantity X Standard Price
Q: 4) Do you require an alternative structure that breaks down the activity and process
costs in accordance with their original costs (such as wages, salaries, energy,
depreciation)?
A: NA
Q: 5) Which cost components should be part of the product's cost of goods manufactured
in Profitability Analysis?
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) If you are working with period-based controlling, do you want to have one cost
collector for each production method or for each material?
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1.2.4. Material Ledger Data
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you intend to value the material with more than one currency or valuation
approach? What are those currencies/approaches?
A: NA
A: NA
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) List the dimensions (characteristics) that you want to create contribution margin
accounting for, according to your reporting requirements.
A:
1. Customer
2. Consignee (Ship to Party)
3. Product
4. Region
5. Country
Questions:
Q: 1) For the characteristics defined in the previous question, specify values (such as,
regions: North, west, east, south)
A:
a. Customer –
i. SABIC
ii. PIC
b. Product
i. Urea
ii. Methanol
iii. Ammonia
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iv. Bagged Urea
c. Region
i. Far east
ii. South east asia
iii. America
iv. Europe
v. India
d. Country
e. Consignee
Questions:
Q: 1) List the terms (characteriestics) that do not have master data, and state how they
are dependent on other criteria.
Q: 2) List the terms (characteristics) that are dependent on each other in a hierarchy.
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Define the report rows (value fields) that you wish to analyze.
A:
1. C&F Price
2. COGM
3. Freight
4. Insurance
5. Demurrages / Dispatch
6. Inspection Charges
7. Marketing Fees
8. Terminal ling
9. Wharf Charges
10. Agency Commission
11. Others
Q: 2) Are you interested only in the revenues and costs that are directly related to
product sales?
A: Yes
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Q: 3) Do you also wish to see other product-related overhead costs?
A: No, since all the costs of the product and overheads are directly allocable to the
products, there are no separate overheads which need to be captured separately here.
Q: 4) Do you also wish to see other income or expenditures that are not related to your
regular business activity (e.g. product production or sales)?
A: NA
Q: 5) Decide which value fields can be posted as reconcilable with FI (true), and which
are to be filled with accrual valuations.
A: To be discussed
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want information on accrued values for your result information, that are not
defined as conditions in SD, or do you require user-defined condition types in CO-PA for
planning purposes?
A: NA
F. Business Processes
1. Revenue and Cost Controlling
1.1. Profit and Cost Planning
1.1.1. Cost and Activity Planning
1.1.1.1. Copy Plan from Previous Year to Cost Center Planning
Questions:
A: The cost centers are planned at the beginning of the year based on the budgets
approved by the management.
Q: 2) Do you want to create your cost center/activity plan based on the planned values of
the previous year? (If so, what is the source of this data and in what form is it stored?
A: No, BALCO has new budgets for all the cost center / activity every year approved by
the management.
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1.1.1.2. Copy Actual Data to Cost Center Plan
Questions:
A: Cost centers are departments or responsibility centers who give their budget which is
approved by the management at the beginning of the year.
Q: 2) Do you want to create your cost center/activity plan based on the actual values of
the previous year? (If so, what is the source of this data and in what form is it stored?
A: No
Questions:
A: The cost centers are planned at the beginning of the year based on the budgets
approved by the management.
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you carry out revaluation (increases or decreases for certain cost elements in
certain cost centers)?
A: Yes
Questions:
Q: 1) Does your organization use the type of budgeting described in the documentation
field?
A: Yes
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1.1.1.6. Order Budgeting
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to plan and control the budget of the order using availability checks?
Explanation: Budgeting for orders makes it possible to create a total budget value for a
given order or given orders. In addition, you can carry out an availability control for this
budget that includes both actual expenses and commitments (deducted from the budget).
Do you use this type of budget control in your enterprise?
A: Yes, This would be mainly used for asset under construction through Project Systems.
Questions:
Explanation: Note that when you plan activity types (define the allocation base per
activity type for the cost center), you define important control parameters, such as price
determination (manual or iterative), plan and actual allocation (direct activity allocation,
target=actual allocation, and so on), and how actual fixed costs are handled (proportionally
or using pre-distribution). The default values taken from the activity type can be
overwritten in planning.
A: Yes, activity planning for the cost centers would be used for all production cost centers
to load the cost of various fixed costs such salaries & wages, maintenance costs,
depreciation, administration overheads etc., to the cost of the product.
Questions:
Explanation: This process variant is only relevant if you perform actual costing. This
controlling strategy also requires you to plan by activity types (define allocation
bases/activity type in each cost center). You can specify <1> as the activity quantity. You
need to plan the activity type in order for the cost center (and the subsequent activity
price calculation) can recognize it. This entails defining some important control indicators,
such as price determination (iterative) and actual allocation (direct or indirect activity
allocation). The default values taken from the activity type can be overwritten in planning.
A: Yes, the activity price calculation is based on the activity quantity. Activity quantity
would be the production quantity to derive the cost of the activity per unit of production.
Questions:
Q: 1) Are statistical key figures kept in the logistics modules, which you want to use as a
basis for allocations and reporting purposes?
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A: Statistical key figures are being used for allocation of administration overheads to the
products. Yet to define the Statistical key figure.
Questions:
Q: 1) If you are also implementing SAP R/3 Asset Management (FI-AA), do you wish to
transfer the results of the Asset Management depreciation simulation calculation as part of
your planning in Controlling (CO) for depreciation expenses?
Explanation: Ensure that the corresponding assets are assigned to the appropriate cost
centers.
A: Yes, all the assets would be assigned to the respective cost centers. Hence periodic
deprecation would be also directly transferred to the controlling module to the respective
cost centers. Activity dependent would be transferred for indirect cost centers like
administration, finance etc.,
Questions:
Q: 1) If you are also implementing SAP R/3 Asset Management (FI-AA), do you wish to
transfer the results of the Asset Management depreciation simulation calculation as part of
your planning in Controlling (CO) for depreciation expenses?
Explanation: Ensure that the corresponding assets are assigned to the appropriate cost
centers.
A: Yes, all the assets would be assigned to the respective cost centers. Hence periodic
deprecation would be also directly transferred to the controlling module to the respective
cost centers. Activity dependent would be transferred for direct production cost center
like ammonia urea etc.,
Questions:
Q: 1) If you are also implementing SAP R/3 Human Resources, do you want to transfer the
results of personnel cost planning to Controlling (CO) as part of your planning for personnel
expenses?
A: No
Questions:
Q: 1) If you are implementing SAP R/3 manufacturing modules, do you want to transfer
activity requirements from sales & operations planning (SOP), long-term planning, or MRP
to Controlling (CO-ABC) as scheduled activities?
Explanation: (and update the relevant business process with the corresponding scheduled
activity)
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A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) If you implementing the SAP R/3 production modules, do you want to transfer the
activity requirements from sales and operations planning (SOP), long-term planning, or MRP
to Controlling (CO-CCA) as the scheduled production activities?
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Which procedure do you use for manual planning of primary costs, when you have
costs that are not transferred from other modules, such as HR or FI-AA?
A: Manual planning would be done based on the cost center planning for costs other than
FI-AA.
Questions:
Q: 1) Which procedure do you use for manual planning of primary costs, when you have
costs that are not transferred from other modules, such as HR or FI-AA?
A: Manual planning would be done based on the cost center planning for costs other than
FI-AA.
Questions:
A: NA, the relation is established between cost centers and secondary cost element based
on the planned assessment cycles.
Questions:
A: NA, the relation is established between cost centers and secondary cost element based
on the planned assessment cycles.
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1.1.1.19. Cost Element Planning (Order with Integrated Planning)
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to use integrated internal orders in cost center planning (such as repair
orders, marketing orders) and settle them to cost centers after planning at the cost
element level?
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to plan costs at the cost element level on overhead cost orders?
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to plan overall costs (values only, independent of cost elements) on
overhead cost orders?
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to enter planning data in your planning for overhead cost orders, as
well as the cost element information?
Explanation: Example is the entry of planning data for the use of materials, and so on.
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Are you using internal orders for temporary job cost controlling and want to plan
costs? If so, you can plan the costs with the Easy Cost Planning function.
A: NA
Q: 2) Do you want to trigger subsequent processes based on the planned resources? If so,
you can use the Execution Services function from the cost estimate in Easy Cost Planning.
A: NA
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1.1.1.24. Periodic Reposting of Plan Data
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you periodically move costs from a project/cost center (such as telephone costs)
to other projects/cost centers?
A: Yes, the costs incurred in the Factory overheads cost centers needs to be allocated to
the production cost centers based on such tracing factor. Hence the cost needs to be
periodically moved from a cost center to other cost centers.
Q: 2) Did you define the basis for these allocations (such as, percentage, statistical key
figures, for example telephone units consumed, and so on)?
A: The basis of allocations would have to be defined but the basis would be on statistical
key figures
Questions:
Explanation: Define the cost elements that should be accrued using the target=actual
method (cost element category 04). Define the cost elements that you want to accrue with
imputed tack-on costs (cost element category 03). For the latter, identify the basis (cost
elements) to be used as the basis for accrual calculation.
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) State how you want to transfer the plan values from Cost Center Accounting to your
business processes.
A: NA
Questions:
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) What costs is the cost estimate based on when you compute overhead for internal
orders?
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A: NA
A: NA
A: [ ]Yes
[X]No
A: NA
A: NA
A: NA
A: NA
A: Presently the allocations of overheads are done based on %. The % are derived based on
the previous years guidelines.
A: NA
Q: 10) For each allocation category, do you distribute overhead as a fixed percentage or
based on the actual total costs?
Q: 11) If you use fixed percentages for assignments, how do you handle remaining
variances?
A: NA
Q: 12) For each of these assignments, what causes the overhead (for example, direct
labor expense, labor hours, total WBS expense, others)?
A: NA
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Q: 13) What postings do the assignments create?
A: NA
A: NA
A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No
Q: 16) Do you want to define a percentage for the overhead rate in the cost object?
A: NA
Q: 17) Do you want to define automatic allocation using overhead rates for a certain type
of costs/expenses on orders?
A: NA
Q: 18) Do you want to add a percentage for overhead to the production cost collector?
A: NA
A: NA
A: NA
Q: 21) Do you want to define automatic allocation using overhead rates for a certain type
of costs/expenses on orders?
A: NA
Q: 22) List the different groups of costs/expenses (for example, applying a fixed
percentage rate for recovery of overhead to material issues).
Explanation: Caution: When you calculate overhead for cost objects that are credited with
the standard cost of goods manufactured times the quantity received in stock, this
overhead should also be contained in the calculated standard cost of goods manufactured
(according to the adjusted standard cost estimate).
A: NA
A: NA
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Q: 24) What costs are the overhead rates based on?
A: NA
Q: 25) Are there any overhead expenses that are not calculated with reference to the
production order but are to be assigned directly to the sales order?
A: NA
Explanation: The Schedule Manager is well suited to performing periodic allocations. The
program selects project objects, permits error correction, and continues the process.
A: NA
Q: 27) Who is responsible for reconciling the run? (This person will be responsible for
running/monitoring planned overhead.)
A: Management Accountant
Q: 28) Do you calculate overhead for all objects at once or individually for each object.
(Detailed calculation can affect system performance.)
A: NA
Q: 29) Do you have a specific plan version when you calculate overhead?
A: NA
A: To be discussed
A: No
Q: 32) Describe how you calculate overhead for (1) direct costs (2) indirect costs (3) fixed
costs (4) variable costs).
A: Presently we are charging based on %. Now we are going to debit the direct costs to
the cost center and indirect costs would be based on the tracing factors.
Q: 33) Do you include sales and marketing and general and administrative costs in your
overhead calculation?
A: No, we want to charge only factory overheads to the products, corporate overheads
would not be allocated to the products.
A: Yes
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Q: 35) Do you process actual overhead on a project by project basis or overall?
A: NA
A: NA
Q: 37) Do you have different overhead costs for each business unit?
A: NA
A: NA
A: NA
A: Monthly
A: The overhead costs are based on the planned and actual total costs
Q: 43) Is the basis for overhead planned costs the same as the basis for actual overhead
costs?
A: Yes
A: Monthly
Q: 47) Does the basis for the overhead costs change during the lifecycle of the project?
A: Yes
Q: 48) Who is responsible for overhead costs? (This person is responsible for running the
overhead calculation.)
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Q: 49) Do you evaluate interest charges throughout the project hierarchy?
A: Yes
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to define automatic allocation using overhead rates for a certain type
of costs/expenses on orders?
A: NA
Explanation: Caution: When you calculate overhead for cost objects that are credited with
the standard cost of goods manufactured times the quantity received in stock, this
overhead should also be contained in the calculated standard cost of goods manufactured
(according to the adjusted standard cost estimate).
A: NA
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to distribute costs from a cost center or a cost center group to CO
objects (cost center, orders, WBS element), and keep the original cost element from the
sender in the receiver object?
A: NA
Q: 2) Did you define the basis for these allocations (such as, percentage, statistical key
figures, for example telephone units consumed, and so on)?
A:
Questions:
Explanation: Example: The "Vehicles" department can plan an internal order for each truck
to monitor the maintenance costs of each vehicle. The planned order costs are allocated to
the appropriate cost center. This lets the cost center managers analyze their vehicle costs
together with other costs, such as electricity, water, and so on.
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Q: 2) If so, do you want to be able to see the costs of the cost center (settlement under
the original cost element)?
A: To be discussed
Q: 3) Or do you want to summarize/aggregate the costs on the cost center (using one or
more secondary settlement cost elements)?
A: To be discussed
A: To be discussed
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you allocation costs from one cost center / group from cost centers to other CO
objects (cost centers, orders, WBS elements) by summarizing the original cost elements
from the sender cost center(s) into one secondary assessment cost element?
Q: 2) Did you define the basis for these allocations (such as, percentage, statistical key
figures, for example telephone units consumed, and so on)?
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you need to reconcile the demand for scheduled labor hours (activity types) with
the available capacity?
A: NA
1.1.1.34. Splitting
Questions:
A: Yes, the cost center planning is done based on the cost elements. There would be
activity independent planned costs such as overheads which have to be assigned to certain
activity.
A:
8. Staff costs
9. Maintenance costs
10. Administration costs
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11. Finance Charges
12. Depreciation
Questions:
Explanation: Internal activities are allocated using a secondary cost element. If you want
to keep detailed information about the origin of costs such as electricity, depreciation, or
maintenance per activity type, you can use a primary cost component split.
A: Calculate the planned price automatically or iteratively by dividing the planned costs
for a cost center/activity type by the planned activity quantities.
Explanation: Process costs are allocated using a secondary cost element. If you want to
keep detailed information on the origin of the costs, you can use a primary cost component
split.
A: NA
Q: 3) Do you want to display partial cost rates (primary cost split) for the planned prices
that were calculated automatically/iteratively?
A: Yes
Questions:
Q: 1) What types of costing do you want to use (adjusted standard, monthly, inventory,
and so on)?
Q: 2) Note: The following processes are located in the Logistics modules: preliminary
costing (production order, product cost collector) and sales order costing
Questions:
Q: 1) Did you check if all the source data from other modules is available for calculating
the production costs?
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Explanation: Example Bills of material, routings, and work centers from PP (Production
Planning) or raw material prices and purchasing information records from MM (Materials
Management).
A: Yes
Q: 2) Which valuation approach are you going to use for externally procured materials,
internal activities, external operations, or subcontracting (quotation or purchase order
prices, including delivery costs and cash discounts)?
Explanation: Externally procured materials -> for example, moving average price, raw
materials costing and so on. Internal activities -> periodic price, average price.
A:
i. Externally procured materials - Moving Average price
ii. Semi-finished materials - Standard price
iii. Internal activities - Periodic price
iv. External services - Quotation or purchase order prices
Q: 3) How do you want to allocate overhead in costing: using overhead rates or activity-
based costing, or both?
Explanation: There are overheads in the production costs (allocation in actual data also),
which debit more than one cost center or order. This means that you need to define
allocation cost centers, or orders in Overhead Cost Controlling.
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you plan your product costs using bills of material (BOM), routings, or
dependencies? If not, how do you plan?
A: [X] Yes
[ ] No
Q: 2) Do you want the single components (gross price, delivery costs and so on) of the
acquisition costs of the externally procured materials in the calculation cost splitting to be
displayed separately?
A: Yes
Explanation: Do you also provide bills of material for this purpose? Should overhead also be
applied to these?
A: NA
Q: 4) Do your cost estimates contain costs that cannot be captured through BOMs,
routings, overhead rates, or process cost allocation?
A: NA
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Q: 5) Do you plan products that use materials belonging to another plant? If so, do these
plants belong to the same company code?
A: NA
A: NA
Q: 7) Have different currencies been assigned to the organizational units involved in the
costing?
A: NA
Q: 8) Do you want to break down your cost of goods manufactured into primary costs? If
so, are you doing this for production, or simply to display the cost of sales in the
profitability analysis?
A: Yes, the break-up of the costs are mentioned in the cost component structure
w. Gas
x. Electricity
y. Catalyst
z. Chemicals
aa. Bags
bb. Staff costs
cc. Maintenance & Operating Supplies
dd. Administration Overheads
ee. Finance Charges
ff. Depreciation
Q: 9) If you are using mixed costing, what proportions of the individual procurement
alternatives/manufacturing processes should be used as a basis for costing?
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Since you are calculating your product costs without access to SAP quantity
structure data, where are you getting the quantity information required for costing?
A: NA
Explanation: Do you also provide bills of material for this purpose? Should overhead also be
applied to these?
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A: NA
Q: 3) Do you plan products that use materials belonging to another plant? If so, do these
plants belong to the same company code?
A: NA
A: NA
Q: 5) Have different currencies been assigned to the organizational units involved in the
costing?
A: NA
Q: 6) Do you want to break down your cost of goods manufactured into primary costs? If
so, are you doing this for production, or simply to display the cost of sales in the
profitability analysis?
A: NA
Questions:
A: Yes
Q: 2) Which rules are used to distribute the costs of goods manufactured to the co-
products?
Questions:
Q: 1) Define your reporting requirements for product costing, and reconcile them with
the standard SAP reports. Do you need customer-specific costing reports?
A: To be discussed
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to update your product costs (determined using standard costing) as
standard prices in MM?
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Explanation: This leads to revaluation of the material stock to the new standard price, if
the material is valuated with the standard price.
A: Yes
Q: 2) Do you want to update your product costs (determined using other costings), such as
inventory costing, as plan prices, or valuation prices based on tax law, and so on in MM
(without stock revaluation)?
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to cost material for which there is no material master in Materials
Management (prototypes, research and development)?
A: NA
Q: 2) Do you require templates for the planned costs of sales orders, such as for selling
services?
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Are you using internal orders for temporary job cost controlling and want to plan
costs? If so, you can plan the costs with the Easy Cost Planning function.
A:
Q: 2) Do you want to trigger subsequent processes based on the planned resources? If so,
you can use the Execution Services function from the cost estimate in Easy Cost Planning.
A:
Questions:
Q: 1) Describe your planning processor. How do you plan the Profit Center?
A: BALCO does revenue planning of the profit center based on the planned production and
projected prices of the products in the market.
1.1.3.1. Copy Plan from Previous Year -> Profit Center Planning
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to base your Profit Center Planning on the previous year's plan values?
If yes, what is the source of this data and in what form is it available?
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Explanation: The plan data of the previous year can be copied into the current year and be
simultaneously revaluated via a percentage rate.
A: BALCO has budgets for every year separately approved by the management which
would be taken for profit center planning
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to base your Profit Center Planning on the previous year's actual
values? If yes, what is the source of this data and in what form is it available?
Explanation: The actual data of the previous year can be copied into the current year and
be simultaneously revaluated via a percentage rate.
A: NA
Questions:
A: Yes, BALCO would like to have different planning scenarios for profit center planning
Questions:
Q: 1) Are you planning in MS-Excel and planning to transfer this data to SAP Profit Center
Accounting?
A: Yes
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to transfer plan data to PCA from other applications? From which
application(s)?
Explanation: The plan version, from which data is transferred in the Profit Center
Accounting, must also be defined in Profit Center Accounting.
A: NA
Questions:
A: NA
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Q: 2) Do you intend to use formula planning within the context of manual Profit Center
Planning? Formula Planning How many of your quotations become orders, If few become
orders consider not using the
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you carry out distributions from one profit center to another profit center within
the same controlling area?
Explanation: Allocation means that you want to copy the original cost element(s) from the
sender PCTR to the receiver PCTR.
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you assess values from one profit center to another within the same controlling
area? code?
Explanation: Assessment means that you want to allocate the original cost elements using
one or more assessment cost elements (secondary cost elements) instead of retaining the
original cost element.
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Define your report requirements within the context of Profit Center Planning and
compare this with the SAP standard reports. Do you require customer-specific Profit Center
Reports?
A: To be discussed
Questions:
A: NA
A: NA
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1.2.1.2. Time Sheet Permit
Questions:
Q: 1) Explain the permit procedure for working time or recording of activity allocation for
your employees.
A: NA
Q: 2) How many employees does the person responsible for approval manage?
Explanation: Consider using the CATS workflow to automate the approval process.
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to transfer recorded activity allocations to Controlling using the time
sheet?
A: [ ]Yes
[X]No
Q: 2) How often does this transfer take place (daily, weekly and so on)?
A: NA
Q: 3) Which time sheet-based reports do you require (for example, employee utilization,
employee hours by cost center)?
A: NA
Questions:
A: NA
Q: 2) Do you need an evaluation, do see the days on which personnel enter more than a
defined number of hours?
A: NA
Q: 3) Do you have to see the employee name in the documents for the receiving
component?
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Explanation: Consider using a User Exit.
A: NA
Q: 4) Do different roles need to see different timesheet information? (If yes, create
report variants.)
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to allocate costs manually from a sender cost center to a receiver
(internal order, cost center, and so on) by valuating the added quantity with a price?
Explanation: Example You settle 2 electrician hours from the electrician cost center to a
receiving cost center, and 1 hour costs USD 50.
A: [ ]Yes
[X]No
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Create a matrix that contains the primary cost elements derived from the chart of
accounts in the rows, and assign these to the possible account assignment objects (cost
center, order).
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) For your organization, do you want to display manual funds reservation (manual
commitments) for expected expenses, where you cannot yet foresee how they are
incurred?
A: Yes to be discussed
Q: 1) When you use manual funds reservation, describe the reduction process for the
manual commitment.
Explanation: Note: Unlike the commitments for purchase requisitions and purchase orders,
the commitment created by the manual funds reservation is not automatically reduced by
actual incurrence of costs. Therefore you need to clarify by whom, at which time, and in
which form (single or collective processing) the commitment is to be reduced.
A: To be discussed
Questions:
A: NA
Questions:
Explanation: If so, actual costs are updated directly to the sales order item. If so, actual
costs are updated directly to the sales order item. For comprehensive information on this,
see the R/3 Library under Financials -> Controlling -> Product Cost Controlling -> Cost
Object Controlling -> Product Cost by Sales Order.
A: NA
Questions:
A: NA
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1.2.3. Profit Center Allocation
1.2.3.1. Actual Data Transfers on Profit Center
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to transfer plan data to PCA from other applications? From which
application(s)?
Explanation: The plan version from which data is transferred in the Profit Center
Accounting, must also be defined in Profit Center Accounting.
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) In Profit Center Accounting, do you want to enter other data which is not
transferred by the integration of EC-PCA?
A: Yes, some rectification which may occur needs to rectified by the document entry
Questions:
Q: 1) Besides the balance sheet items transferred at period end, (see period end closing
Profit Center Accounting) do you wish to transfer other B/S items transaction-based? If yes,
which ones?
A: All the balance sheet accounts are required for profit center accounting. BALCO
requires Product wise balance sheet and profit & loss account.
Questions:
Q: 1) In Profit Center Accounting, do you want to enter other statistical key figures which
are not transferred by the integration of EC-PCA?
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to transfer the sales order receipt to profitability analysis? Which
period do you want to show the sales order result in?
Explanation: Options: - Period in which the order was entered - Period for the expected
delivery / billing plan
A: Sales order data needs to be captured into Profitability analysis based on the period for
the expected delivery.
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Q: 2) Which sales order values do you want to track in reporting? Examples: Gross
revenue, net revenue, or cost-of-sales.
a. C&F Price
b. COGM
c. Freight
d. Insurance
e. Demurrages / Dispatch
f. Inspection Charges
g. Marketing Fees
h. Terminal ling
i. Wharf Charges
j. Agency Commission
k. Others
Questions:
Q: 1) To which report rows (value fields) are the true conditions in the billing document
to be assigned? In addition, you do want to transfer statistical conditions?
A: Yes
1. C&F Price
2. COGM
3. Freight
4. Insurance
5. Demurrages / Dispatch
6. Inspection Charges
7. Marketing Fees
8. Terminal ling
9. Wharf Charges
10. Agency Commission
11. Others
Q: 3) Do you want to update the cost component split for cost of goods manufactured
from product costing in profitability analysis by transaction?
Explanation: If you want to reconcile the cost of sales with FI, you need to transfer the
VPRS condition to CO-PA also.
A: No
Q: 1) Do you perform third-party transactions in the SAP sense? This means that sold
products are delivered to customers directly from the supplier; no goods receipt or goods
issue is posted in your company.
Explanation: To execute third party business transactions, you need to post the incoming
invoices for the vendor to the customer before the invoices are sent out. In this case, you
are urgently required to transfer the VPRS condition from SD.
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you perform inter-company business in the SAP sense? This means that sold
goods are delivered from a plant in a company code that is not the same as the invoicing
company code.
A: NA
Q: 2) Do you want to compare the external revenues with the cost of goods manufactured
of the company code of production?
A: [ ]Yes
[X ]No
Questions:
Q: 1) How should credit memos, returns, and free deliveries be shown in Profitability
Analysis?
Explanation: Example: You need to ensure that the value field for freight is reset for
returns.
A: Yes
Questions:
A: NA
Questions:
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Q: 1) Do all your revenue and sales deduction postings come in from the Sales and
Distribution component, or are there additional postings to those categories that originate
in the General Ledger?
A: NA
Q: 2) Which additional expenses and revenues that were not carried in Overhead Cost
Controlling nor in Product Cost Controlling do you want to transfer to Profitability Analysis?
Explanation: These can also be expenses/revenues that have previously been posted in CO-
PA for accrual purposes only, and which you want to compare with the actual values.
A: To be defined.
Questions:
Q: 1) Do all your revenue and sales deduction postings come in from the Sales and
Distribution component, or are there additional postings to those categories that originate
in the General Ledger?
A: All sales related deductions are posted to Sales & Distribution Module.
Q: 3) Create a matrix that contains the primary cost and revenue elements derived from
the chart of accounts in the rows, and assign these to the possible account assignment
objects (combinations of characteristics in CO-PA).
Explanation: (As information for defining the field selection in FI/MM, and for defining the
characteristic groups) defining the characteristic groups) Assign these to the cost elements
that are always assigned to this object number (profitability segment). What value fields
do you want to post the values for which cost elements to?
A: NA
Explanation: Examples: Expenses and revenue from the revaluation or transfer of stock
between plants.
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A: Interest Income??
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you periodically move costs from a project/cost center (such as telephone costs)
to other projects/cost centers?
A: Yes
Q: 2) Did you define the basis for these allocations (such as, percentage, statistical key
figures, for example telephone units consumed, and so on)?
Questions:
Explanation: Define the cost elements that should be accrued using the target=actual
method (cost element category 04). Define the cost elements that you want to accrue with
imputed tack-on costs (cost element category 03). For the latter, identify the basis (cost
elements) to be used as the basis for accrual calculation.
A: To be discussed
Questions:
Explanation: Define the cost elements that should be accrued using the target=actual
method (cost element category 04). Define the cost elements that you want to accrue with
imputed tack-on costs (cost element category 03). For the latter, identify the basis (cost
elements) to be used as the basis for accrual calculation.
A:
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to distribute costs from a cost center or a cost center group to CO
objects (cost center, orders, WBS element), and keep the original cost element from the
sender in the receiver object?
A: To be discussed
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Q: 2) Did you define the basis for these allocations (such as, percentage, statistical key
figures, for example telephone units consumed, and so on)?
Questions:
Q: 1) When you use indirect activity allocation (manual entry), are you able to measure
and post the activities on the sender cost center that are to be allocated?
A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No
Questions:
Q: 1) Application example:
Explanation: The "Quality control" cost center provides 1,000 hours of the "Checking"
activity type. It provides activity to the "Goods receipt" and "Finished product" cost
centers. The allocation is made using the allocation base "Number of checked items" (PP).
On the "Goods receipt" cost center, there are 4,000 of these items, and on the "Finished
product" cost center, there are 6,000. This corresponds to an activity input of 400 hours by
the "Goods receipt" cost center, and 600 hours by the "Finished product" cost center. The
price for each activity unit on the "Quality control" cost center" is 50 USD/h. This activity
output creates costs of 50,000 USD on the "Quality control" cost center. The receiver cost
centers are debited according to their allocation base "Checked items" with the following
costs: Goods receipt: (50,000 USD x 4,000 PP) / 10,000 PP = 20,000 USD Finished
products: (50.000 USD x 6,000 PP) / 10,000 PP = 30,000 USD
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Example:
Explanation: In the application example, the activity is determined using weighting factors
on the sender, with tracing factors from the receiver. You need to define these tracing
factors for the sender. The sender rule in this case is for quantities determined invertedly.
You can use any receiver rule. The receiver tracing factors are as follows: "Goods receipt":
4,000 items for checking. "Finished products": 6,000 items for checking. 0,4 hours are
required by the "Quality control" cost center for checking. To do this, a weighting factor of
0,4 is defined on the sender for the "Check" activity type. This results in 1,600 hours
activity input for the "Goods receipt" cost center, and 2,400 hours for the "Finished
products" cost center. The "Check" activity is valuated at 5 USD/h. This means that the
sender is credited with 20,000 USD, the "Goods receipt" cost center is debited with 8,000
USD, and the "Finished products" cost center is debited with 12,000 USD.
A: NA
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1.3.1.8. Target=Actual Activity Allocation
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to have the system automatically calculate the actual activity input of
primary cost centers (receivers) from secondary cost centers (senders) on the basis of the
operating level and the planned activity input of the receiver cost center?
Explanation: This also determines the actual quantity of the sender cost center using the
target quantity of the receiver. This technique is useful when you can determine a direct
proportional relationship between the activity input and the activity output of the primary
cost center (such as between energy hours and machine hours).
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you have process costs that you want to allocate to overhead cost orders?
A: NA
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to define automatic allocation using overhead rates for a certain type
of costs/expenses on orders?
A: NA
Explanation: Caution: When you calculate overhead for cost objects that are credited with
the standard cost of goods manufactured times the quantity received in stock, this
overhead should also be contained in the calculated standard cost of goods manufactured
(according to the adjusted standard cost estimate).
A: NA
A:
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Questions:
A: NA
A: NA
Questions:
A: To be discussed
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you allocation costs from one cost center / group from cost centers to other CO
objects (cost centers, orders, WBS elements) by summarizing the original cost elements
from the sender cost center(s) into one secondary assessment cost element?
A: Yes, To be discussed
Q: 2) Did you define the basis for these allocations (such as, percentage, statistical key
figures, for example telephone units consumed, and so on)?
Questions:
Q: 1) What costs is the cost estimate based on when you compute overhead for internal
orders?
A: NA
A: NA
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Q: 3) Will you perform automatic recovery of overheads on specific types of
costs/expenses?
A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No
A: NA
A: NA
A: NA
A: NA
A: NA
A: NA
Q: 10) For each allocation category, do you distribute overhead as a fixed percentage or
based on the actual total costs?
A: NA
Q: 11) If you use fixed percentages for assignments, how do you handle remaining
variances?
A: NA
Q: 12) For each of these assignments, what causes the overhead (for example, direct
labor expense, labor hours, total WBS expense, others)?
A: NA
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Q: 13) What postings do the assignments create?
A: NA
A: NA
A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No
Q: 16) Do you want to define a percentage for the overhead rate in the cost object?
A: NA
Q: 17) Do you want to define automatic allocation using overhead rates for a certain type
of costs/expenses on orders?
A: NA
Q: 18) Do you want to add a percentage for overhead to the production cost collector?
A: NA
A: NA
A: NA
Q: 21) Do you want to define automatic allocation using overhead rates for a certain type
of costs/expenses on orders?
A: NA
Q: 22) List the different groups of costs/expenses (for example, applying a fixed
percentage rate for recovery of overhead to material issues).
Explanation: Caution: When you calculate overhead for cost objects that are credited with
the standard cost of goods manufactured times the quantity received in stock, this
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overhead should also be contained in the calculated standard cost of goods manufactured
(according to the adjusted standard cost estimate).
A: NA
A: NA
A: NA
Q: 25) Are there any overhead expenses that are not calculated with reference to the
production order but are to be assigned directly to the sales order?
A: NA
Explanation: The Schedule Manager is well suited to performing periodic allocations. The
program selects project objects, permits error correction, and continues the process.
A: NA
Q: 27) Who is responsible for reconciling the run? (This person will be responsible for
running/monitoring planned overhead.)
A: NA
Q: 28) Do you calculate overhead for all objects at once or individually for each object.
(Detailed calculation can affect system performance.)
A: NA
Q: 29) Do you have a specific plan version when you calculate overhead?
A: NA
A: NA
Q: 32) Describe how you calculate overhead for (1) direct costs (2) indirect costs (3) fixed
costs (4) variable costs).
A: NA
Q: 33) Do you include sales and marketing and general and administrative costs in your
overhead calculation?
A: NA
A: NA
A: NA
A: NA
Q: 37) Do you have different overhead costs for each business unit?
A: NA
A: NA
A: NA
A: NA
A: NA
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A: NA
Q: 43) Is the basis for overhead planned costs the same as the basis for actual overhead
costs?
A: NA
A: NA
A: NA
A: NA
Q: 47) Does the basis for the overhead costs change during the lifecycle of the project?
A:
Q: 48) Who is responsible for overhead costs? (This person is responsible for running the
overhead calculation.)
A: NA
A: NA
Questions:
A: NA
A: NA
Questions:
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Q: 1) Do you want to pre-distribute fixed costs independent of the receiving cost centers
actual usage of resources?
Explanation: Do you want to debit a receiver cost center with the fixed cost of the sender
according to the plan?
A: NA
1.3.1.17. Splitting
Questions:
Q: 1) Comment on splitting
Explanation: Normally, cost elements in Cost Center Accounting are not assigned to
activity types for actual postings. Be sure to split the costs posted independent of activities
to the individual activity types before you calculate the actual price.
Q: 2) Did you define the basis for these allocations (such as, percentage, statistical key
figures, for example telephone units consumed, and so on)?
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to calculate actual prices for Cost Center Accounting and / or Activity-
Based Costing on an automatic or iterative basis?
A: Automatic Calculation based on the Actual costs of the cost elements in the cost center
A: Periodic
A: Yes, to be discussed
Questions:
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you intend to allocate costs from one cost center/order of a company code to
another cost center/order of another company code and represent this as an intercompany
transaction in FI?
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Provide the consultant with your most critical business process reports.
A: To be discussed
Questions:
Q: 1) Provide the consultant with your most critical cost center reports.
A: To be discussed
Questions:
Q: 1) Describe the critical factors for order analysis, such as plan/budget vs. actual
analysis, order group analysis, or detailed line item analysis.
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you have process costs that you want to allocate to a cost object?
A: [ ]Yes
[ ]No
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Q: 2) Which factors influence the amount of costs to be allocated?
A: NA
Questions:
Explanation: You can valuate subsequently using actual prices without changing the
original allocations made using planned prices. Instead, the system posts the difference to
the allocation made using the planned price with a separate business transaction. with a
separate business transaction. When you valuate subsequently using the original business
transaction, the system changes the original allocation so that you can no longer distinguish
the difference between the two valuations. Distinguish the difference between the two
valuations. In subsequent valuation using actual prices, you want to reallocate cost center
variances to other cost centers or cost objects. The other strategy would be to post the
variances to Profitability Analysis.
A: YES
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to use the calculated target costs on the orders for the distribution
within the cost object hierarchy to the product cost collector?
Explanation: Note: Required if you want to create a periodic unit price or periodic
allocation price, and if the total costs are to be displayed on the orders.
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to define a percentage for the overhead rate in the cost object?
A: NA
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you have process costs that you want to allocate to a product cost collector?
A: NA
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Q: 2) Which factors influence the amount of costs to be allocated?
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to define automatic allocation using overhead rates for a certain type
of costs/expenses on orders?
A: NA
Explanation: Caution: When you calculate overhead for cost objects that are credited with
the standard cost of goods manufactured times the quantity received in stock, this
overhead should also be contained in the calculated standard cost of goods manufactured
(according to the adjusted standard cost estimate).
A: NA
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Note: WIP for target costs is determined by valuating the actual postings with the
target costs of the product costing.
A: NA
Q: 2) Describe the level of detail and the cost breakdown that you want for your WIP.
Define the WIP components that do not require activation (no transfer to FI)
A: NA
Questions:
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Define a settlement rule for the cost object in the cost object hierarchy.
Explanation: Note: If there is no distribution of actual cost for the cost object hierarchy,
then this needs to be maintained.
A: NA
Questions:
Explanation: Define the value fields for profitability analysis (for materials where the
material price control indicator is set to S) for transferring the variances.
Explanation: To debit the cost object, define a cost element (category 22), which is
assigned to the GBB-AUA business transaction in MM Account determination.
A: NA
Questions:
Explanation: Product drilldown provides you with a fixed hierarchy that displays the
product costs per plant, product group, product group, cost element, and if necessary, the
period. If you want to summarize your product costs using other criteria, such as, sold-to-
party, profit center, business area, then you need to use order summarization. This enables
you to create hierarchies that include all of the fields in the order master record. If you
require more summmarization criteria, you can use classification to define criteria for
summarization as needed.
A: Yes
Q: 2) How do you want to group your materials for the summarized analysis?
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A: NA
Q: 3) Is this grouping and its requirements regarding product groups and material groups
identical in Logistics?
Questions:
Q: 1) Define your reporting requirements in Cost Object Controlling, and compare them
to the SAP standard reports. Do you require customer-specific cost object reports?
A: YES
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you need to distribute revenues, gains and balance sheet accounts from the
profit centers to other profit centers for the end of period, and simultaneously pass on the
sender cost center or the balance sheet account to the receiver profit center?
A: NA
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) For period-end closing, do you need to assess revenues, costs, and balance sheet
accounts from the profit centers to other profit centers, and transfer the sender cost
element or balance sheet account to the profit center receiver?
A: NA
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Define your report requirements within the context of Profit Center Planning and
compare this with the SAP standard reports. Do you require customer-specific Profit Center
Reports?
A: To be discussed
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1.3.4. Period-End Closing for Profitability Analysis
1.3.4.1. Settlement of Sales Orders
Questions:
Q: 1) If you enterprise has make-to-order production with sales order controlling, but you
do not use results analysis, assign the cost elements that were posted on sales orders to
the relevant value fields in the profitability analysis.
A: NA
Q: 2) If you are using results analysis, how detailed should the information on cost-of-
sales and revenues be in profitability analysis?
A: NA
Questions:
A: YES
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to settle costs and/or revenues from internal orders directly to
profitability analysis?
A: To be discussed
Q: 2) Assign the appropriate value fields (report rows) of Profitability Analysis to the costs
and revenues posted to the projects.
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to settle costs and/or revenues from projects (such as customer
projects) directly to profitability analysis?
A: NA
Q: 2) Assign the appropriate value fields (report rows) of Profitability Analysis to the costs
and revenues posted to the internal orders.
A: NA
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1.3.4.5. Actual Allocation of Process Costs to Profitability Analysis
Questions:
A: NA
Q: 2) Which level do you want to assign these costs (using the step-by-step principles of
analysis of fixed-cost allocation)? (for example, company code, country, enterprise area,
sales organization)
A: NA
Q: 3) Which allocation methods do you require for transferring the planned process costs
to profitability analysis?
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to transfer the posted cost center costs to profitability analysis?
Q: 2) Which level do you want to assign these costs (using the step-by-step principles of
analysis of fixed-cost allocation)? (for example, company code, country, enterprise area,
sales organization)
A: NA
Q: 3) Which allocation methods are to be used for transferring the posted cost center
costs to profitability analysis?
A: NA
Questions:
Q: 1) Do you want to assign posted actual costs for period-end closing to a more detailed
level than when the original posting was made? (For example, distribution of automatic
postings from the company code level to enterprise areas)
A: NA
A: NA
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1.3.4.8. Analysis of Results and Contribution Margins
Questions:
Q: 1) Determine the structure of the contribution margin scheme you want to report on in
CO-PA.
A: Yes
A: Yes
Explanation: You should define summarization levels for these groups if data volumes are
large.
A: NA
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